An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Company, 1852 - 72 Seiten |
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... bliss in action , some in ease , Those call it pleasure , and contentment these : Some , sunk to beasts , find pleasure end in pain ; Some , swell'd to gods , confess ev'n virtue vain ; Or , indolent , to each extreme they fall , To ...
... bliss in action , some in ease , Those call it pleasure , and contentment these : Some , sunk to beasts , find pleasure end in pain ; Some , swell'd to gods , confess ev'n virtue vain ; Or , indolent , to each extreme they fall , To ...
Seite 50
... Bliss is the same in subject or in king , In who obtain defence , or who defend , 65 In him who is , or him who finds a friend : [ whole Heaven breathes through every member of the One common blessing , as one common soul . But ...
... Bliss is the same in subject or in king , In who obtain defence , or who defend , 65 In him who is , or him who finds a friend : [ whole Heaven breathes through every member of the One common blessing , as one common soul . But ...
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... bliss to vice , to virtue woe ! 94 for ) mere mankind . By mere mankind , the poet here means the human state of existence , unconnected with futurity . 80. Lie agrees with pleasure and joys , in the line pre- ceding ; or rather with ...
... bliss to vice , to virtue woe ! 94 for ) mere mankind . By mere mankind , the poet here means the human state of existence , unconnected with futurity . 80. Lie agrees with pleasure and joys , in the line pre- ceding ; or rather with ...
Seite 62
... bliss attends their close of life ? Some greedy minion , or imperious wife , 305 The trophied arches , storied halls invade , And haunt their slumbers in the pompous shade . Alas ! not dazzled with their noontide ray , Compute the morn ...
... bliss attends their close of life ? Some greedy minion , or imperious wife , 305 The trophied arches , storied halls invade , And haunt their slumbers in the pompous shade . Alas ! not dazzled with their noontide ray , Compute the morn ...
Seite 63
... bliss Heaven could on all bestow ! Which who but feels can taste , but thinks can know : Yet poor with fortune , and with learning blind , The bad must miss ; the good , untaught , will find ; Slave to no sect , who takes no private ...
... bliss Heaven could on all bestow ! Which who but feels can taste , but thinks can know : Yet poor with fortune , and with learning blind , The bad must miss ; the good , untaught , will find ; Slave to no sect , who takes no private ...
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act the soul agreeing alike ambition Ammon angels apposition beast blessing blest bliss breath Cæsar Catiline chain confest connected creature Decius degree divine earth EPISTLE ethereal Ev'n false mirror fame fear fix'd fool Form'd gives gods govern happier happiness Heaven hope human imitating God instinct joy or curse Julius Cæsar kings knave laws Learn learn'd live look lord man's mankind Marseilles means mind monarch nature's nature's law never note to line noun object pain participle passion planets Pleas'd pleasure poet pours prep preposition pride pronoun reign rill rise Rubicon self-love and social sense sire slave Socrates sphere stoics stuck o'er substantive phrase taught tence thee things thou art thy reason toil touch truth Turenne Twixt tyrant understood verb virtue's virtuous weak Whate'er whole wise wrong